Dear Berkeley Students,

My name is Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. I have recently returned from yet another grueling session in Congress, and I've had enough. I want to rethink what it means to create a social network and start from scratch. Unfortunately, my fellow employees at Facebook and I have been around our product for too long. So I am reaching out to you, the best that Berkeley has to offer, to help me think about this question.

I want you to be as creative as possible and rethink what it means to build a website that connects people around the world. The only requirement is that it achieves this broad goal. Please deliver to me a prototype written in Ruby on Rails no later than Tuesday, November 24. Best of luck, please don't disappoint.

Best,

Mark Zuckerberg

Suggested Features:

• Posts, Likes, Comments, Friends are all things Facebook has right now. You can use that as a guide to what new models you could have!
• Messaging (doesn't have to be real-time)
• Connecting with others